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Fire on Lancing Industrial Estate in the 1970's |
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 John, who lives in The Street, passed along these photos to share. They are of a large fire on the Lancing Industrial Estate, possibly in 1973.
The fire broke out in the premises of Tinsley Robor who were using the old Lancing Railway Carriage Works to produce covers for long playing vinyl albums
Photo of the fire taken from a helicopter. The large building from which
smoke rises is Lancing Railway Carriage Works
A panorama of the fire scene. To the top left of the
photo is the Worthing to Brighton railway line. The road shown is
Chartwell Road. John, who was working on the Estate at the time
remembers that the fire engines attending the blaze ran lines of water
hoses from the lake at Brooklands to douse the flames Ann send along her memory of this event I was working at Robor at the time of the fire, although not
on the day the fire started as I was on holiday. I walked my dog up
to Lancing Ring and saw the smoke and wondered what was burning!
Then I went shopping into Lancing and the butcher said I might not
have a job to return to. As it happened I had to cut short my
holiday and the office staff travelled to Storrington where the
Managing Director, Mr John Rose, lived and we worked from his home -
which was a pleasant change - until the building was sorted out. |
